SUNNY MURRAY Sonny's Time Now LP/1965/Albert Ayler/Don Cherry/Sonny/ESP Disk

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SONNY MURRAY (SUNNY MURRAY) 'Sonny's Time Now' LP (Germany, Skokiaan, Catalogue #???) Brand new/unplayed copy of year 2016 Skokiaan label issue of LP of 1965 free jazz session, originally released on the Jihad label, featuring Sunny (Sonny) Murray, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, Henry Grimes, Louis Worrell, and Leroi Jones. Fans of the ESP Disk label, take note.

(NOTE: LIMITED VINYL EDITION!)

'Skokiaan present a reissue of Sonny Murray's Sonny's Time Now, originally released in 1965. Only a few months after recording Ghosts (SKOK 001CD, 1965) with Albert Ayler, Sonny Murray released his first album as a leader. Sonny's Time Now is one of the holy grails for collectors and aficionados of free avant garde jazz music from the 1960s. This 2016 vinyl reissue is the first vinyl reissue of the album in 30 years. The last CD reissue was in 1991. Albert Ayler and his Ghosts album from 1965 was already a hard thing to swallow, except for the most adventurous explorers of the furthest corners of the border districts of music. An unconventional view on onomatopoeia is necessary to enter this world and drummer Sonny Murray went another step ahead on Sonny's Time Now. The lengthy piece "Virtue" presents an ever pulsating wall of rhythm that sounds like a wuthering ocean with the horn section going nuts on top. The saxes and trumpets are constantly erupting and it is a challenge for the listener to find the melodies among their output of sound. "Justice", another lengthy piece divided into two parts, continues the quest "Virtue" began. The atmosphere of these free improvisations slowly swallows the listener and the shrieks of the saxophones and trumpets, frees souls from physical bodies. What feels like an impenetrable thicket of sound at first is soon enlightening and a memorable structure within all the chaos. The same year that John Coltrane took the last step away from traditional jazz and music in general, this album was equally as radical but seems to have disappeared within the depths of music history. The most radical piece on this record comes with the shorter "Black Art", a writing by activist and controversial poet Amiri Baraka, aka LeRoy Jones, is underlined with freak-out eruptions from Sonny Murray and his mates. This is the right soundtrack for a cathartic meditation. For a must have for fans of Coltrane. "The Lie" is not featured on the original release.'

Tracks on this LP are as follows:

• Virtue (11:07)
• Justice (12:43)
• Black Art (6:33)
• The Lie (5:55)

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